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and his name is sam mayfield.  >> right before the pitch, i looked to the guy next to m i said matt wieters is going to hit his first home run. next thing i know, ball's in the air, it's coming right at me, hits a hand, drops in front of me, pick it up and everybody went nuts. >> gary: and he did bring it back down. there's the, he's got the dark jersey on there. he'll bend over to pick the ball up right there. matt wieters first home run. then they brought him down to the clubhouse area. >> jim: so he can predict home runs. >> gary: i wanted to get some numbers out of him. by the looks of the guy to the right, he did in fact call that. the guy was unapole jet he cannily completely stunned. >> jim: is he swinging away here? >> gary: third walk surrendered by tim redding in the ballgame. that will put wieters on with two down, and that will bring up andino. an dean negotiation a strikeout victim his first time up. orioles will try to mount a two- out rally here. a chopper to short, force at second, to castillo to get the out. i think it's the same. ♪ introducing the next iphone.

who were very interested, some of whom you have seen here, some of whom were backstage -- chuck robb, sam nunn, dick gephardt -- and i was one of the first people in that organization and al made us put up each $1,000 apiece, which now seems like a small sum but in 1985 seemed like a very large sum. my campaign account was not nearly as large as, luckily, it is today. and we were very proud of that organization and it was somewhat controversial and has remained controversial because al has kept the organization, through many great leaders like bill clinton, like harold ford -- is harold still here? if harold were speaking he would have stayed, i guarantee you. tell him i said so, will you, please? or just yell at the television when you see him come on. but al from kept the faith an kept the focus. and he made an extraordinary difference in terms of responsibility and community, in terms of opportunity, in terms of education, in terms of commitment to at that time security. the values that americans knew were important to build our current and were necessary to maintain our current and ma

to the chairs of the d.l.c., gickgep -- dick gephardt, chuck, sam nunn, president clinton, johnny bro, evan bayh tom vilsack and evan ford jr. thank you for all you've done. for those of you still around here, thank you for your perseverance. i appreciate it very much. so many people and so many of you have supported the d.l.c. and the p.p.i. over the years and believe me, i appreciate it very much. i appreciate every hard-earned dollar you gave us and i thank you one and all. thanks as well to the hundreds of people who worked or interned for the d.l.c. your services made an incredible difference and i hope you're proud of it. i'm very proud of what you contributed. i just want to say a special word at bruce reid, the next, and thank him, the next leader of the deform l.c. the d.l.c. could not be in better hands. bruce reid is an idea man's idea man. he possesses a rare blend of brilliance, humor, and humility. to be honest, after his eight years in the white house, i never thought i'd leuer him back to the d.l.c. he was harder to recruit than bill clinton. but i always believed bruc

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guest: sam, i share your frustration, but in this case at the ticket has much to do with the media as much as with our legal system. lawyers have got and sophisticated in good a dragging things out. these things can go on for years. that is what this is all about. this is not something i think we in the media can do much about. we can keep pushing. we can do our own investigations, but it is the legal system and it the length of trials that i think is causing the frustration you are talking about. host: by the numbers here is a statistic since 1985 that the number of u.s. newspapers with reporters, down 72%. guest: this is one of the great concerns now. it really worries me. will newspapers survived this technological revolution? frankly, the outlook is not good. we must have an independent press. we must have independently- gathered information. it is more expensive to produce his papers. not just the price of print, but finding revenue to support these expensive enterprises. with the coming of the internet newspapers have lost most of their want ad business. the question will be, ca

i mentioned chief justice roberts and justice sam alito who did not give us anywhere near as clear or complete a record but i don't recall a single republican saying we did not have a complete record before we considered their nominations. their nominations were by a republican president, for those two men, their nomination was by a republican president. those two men for the supreme court. this woman is nominated by a democratic president, even though she has given a more complete record, somehow that's not enough. it was more than enough the two men nominated by a republican president, not enough for this woman nominated by a democratic president. we have judge sotomayor's record for the federal bench. it is a public record we had even before she was designated by the president. as i said, we had her record from when she was first nominated to the federal bench by president george h.w. bush. we have her record when after she became a member of the federal court of appeals nominated by president bill clinton and that record is a mainstream record of judicial restraint and modesty, th

host: sam, what is the tie between that situation and the current situation in iran? caller: we are encouraging democracy in iran, england, the united states, but when it comes to the palestinian people, the only thing we hear from politicians is the negative things from a few actors that are raking in the middle east. host: we will leave it there. guest: i think the current situation in palestine is a prime example of where the countries you mention, including mine, do encourage democracy. we have supported the elections there. we made a mistake, in my view, in the attitude we took to the most recent election, and i don't agree with the policy which we adopted in the last four years, but to go back to 1948, i don't want to suggest that that was anything other than a major failure on the part of britain, which has had fateful consequences which are highly regrettable for the palestinian people. host: the guardian is reporting "iran opposition alleges plot to implicate mousavi, jailed iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt to force them into t.v. confessio

and i will say to sam that this was an issue that did in fact come up. the ranking member who held the hearing did accuse mr. klein of leaving early and not having all the facts. she would not say, though, what might have been different had he stayed for the whole hearing. and the republicans, mr. klein and mr. hoekstra -- mr. hoekstra said he discussed this with a number of members of the panel and that -- of the subcommittee -- and he drew the same conclusion. but the point is taken that we don't know if there was information that may have led these republicans to draw a different conclusion. they may in fact be sayihearingt they want to hear. we may know if this process gets opened up. host: jared allen, thafrg you f -- thank you for being on the program. in a minute we will talk to john mcmanus, author and historian from st. louis. we will talk to him about the 65th anniversary of d-day. first, we want to look back at the invasion of the normandy, d-day, and we will look at ceremonies to commemorate the 65th anniversary. president obama will speak at

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belliard was able to freeze melvin mora momentarily so melvin has to be held at third by juan sam well, and the orioles have the bases loaded. >> jim p.: melvin's job is not to get doubled up. if the ball gets through for a base hit, you know the bases are going to be loaded. >> jim h.: so mora goes to third, zaun at second, andino is on at first with one down. here's brian roberts who is without a doubt due. he's 0 for 4 tonight and 0 for his last 14. >> jim p.: how about winning 11- 1 and one of the best lead-off guys in baseball having what for him is an off night. that 0 for 4 last night. >> jim h.: tonight he was robbed by gonzalez in the fifth inning on an amazing diving grab. there's been some spectacular defense played tonight on both sides. no errors in this game. high fly ball slicing foul down the left-field line, and that will be back in the crowd. >> rob: roberts said coming into interleague play tonight, .304 lifetime batting average with nine home runs. very respectable in interleague play. nationals concentrated on just one guy in the line-up. you might want to go down

sam -- uncle sam. house republicans are committed to bringing reform to our health care economy in this country, but it will be reform built on protecting the doctor-patient relationship and protecting the fundamental integrity of a private health insurance system in this country. >> questions? >> in addition to the 850-page health care reform, majority leader harry reid said he wanted to move comprehensive immigration reform bill through the senate that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens and a guest worker program. are you interested in moving a similar bill through the house? >> i suggested to a group last week that being in congress this year has been like standing in front of a machine gun. whether it's the stimulus bill, the omnibus appropriations bill, the trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see in the budget, whether it's the proposal on taking over a health care system, a national energy tax, and now somebody is going to suggest we're going to try to do immigration

. >> what do you plan to see or should i ask sam to see what he's going to show you? >> when you go back home with your students, without your children, or even your parents or your friends, how do you think you will take this home with you? how will you share it? >> in pictures. >> this is one of the reasons i have do what i love, because i too love the american story, but i like to tell that story with the camera. exhibit a. so like you, what john was saying, i was a former teacher, not a former, but a -- a farmer teacher. that's a midwestern accent if you didn't notice. and i was an american history teacher. but basically, i was more in love with the story of america and i had more interest in the philosophy of america indument matily, i earned -- ultimately i learned from john's wife, if you're a teacher, you're not supposed to smile until january and i was less a person for giving discipline and more a person that required much discipline. so consequently, i was looking for a larger classroom. and today, that's what my project is called, visions of america, and t

some of the stories that were there that are where people love of the wal-mart and this sort of it sam walton phenomenon and away the shop floor was run in some of the relationships between the managers and workers -- could you give us a feel of what was in the early records before it became this huge corporation? >> guest: of course, people understand the company is shaped by its post 1992, post 994 version but from the earlier company you have to think of these as stores that were sort of replacing the town square. a small town by a small town and they would frequently be located in county seat house because, of course, our farmers are custom and the south to coming in on a meal lichens on saturdays and doing their shopping and also that among other reason sam walton was careful of a joy to producing county seat towns. you had a performing the same function in many places as the old town square, people would talk about how they loved working as wal-mart because and this is important to say that the people i interviewed were very insistent that the store and get out, how much they app

. >> thank you, sam. can you hear me in the back? great. what i am going to look at this afternoon are the economic conditions in iran and what brought about the dissatisfaction, if that is what it was. i am going to look at the economy in two ways. unity, vulnerability, because of the implications. i will try to tie that in there. mentioning the revolutionary guard, i think that there will definitely be instances on the economic front. what i will try to do headfirst is look at the general economy in total. we were running about 5 million to 6 million barrels per day, prior to the revolution. the economic system is as followed, dropping to 3.3 in 79, 1.3 in 80. it has been brought back up to four, but at this stage it is running about 4 million barrels per day. the director of the international division was interviewed yesterday, he was under the impression that they would be running somewhere around there. overproduction is going down. iran is the second-largest gas reserve holder in the world. yes, it is actually a gasoline importer. the

we always hear about uncle sam. who is the aunt? >> rob: is it 4th of july? >> bob: getting there. here is reid brignac. on the 4th of july this year, the nationals will be home against the atlanta brave. >> rob: the home of the brave. >> bob: jo that will be a day game. that will be cool that day, 1:05. >> rob: remember homer the brave, the mascot, he fired the cannon shots. >> bob: i remember before him, chief nakahoma. >> rob: that's right, chief nakahoma. >> bob: he had the tent right there in fulton stadium. i'm pretty sure that's offensive now. >> rob: yes, it is. >> bob: third walk by craig stammen. here is a look at what the rays have done over the years as far as the draft. their current roster is full of guys they scouted, signed, developed and got to the major league. >> rob: and they dave up a first rounder in dellmont young for matt garza. so, remember, they used their draft wisely. >> bob: so brain santiago, upton and crawford, three consecutive draft choices, may be batting here in the 5th inning. upton singled, steal two bases last time up. and, of course, we have n

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knows if it becomes big enough and engages in sufficiently risky processes or practices, that uncle sam is going to step in and bail that institution out. that is exactly the wrong message for us to be sending. it is astonishing to me that our regulatory system was so lax and had so many gaps in it that we can have this huge market and yesterday default swaps arise where they're regulated neither as a security or as insurance. we can have a situation where a large firm like bear stearns has a leverage ratio that exceeds 30-1 and no regulator is stepping in, that we can have all of those kinds of problems. and that's what we have to act to prevent. the approach to too-big-to-fail is one that we have to undertake carefully, however. i don't think that it makes sense to put some arbitrary limit on how big a firm can get, but i do think that with increased size should come increased scrutiny by the regulators and higher capital requirements. the tarp congressional oversight panel has adopted a similar position. as the panel has explained -- quote -- "we should not identify specific institut

i also want to thank sam phillips and the staff of this office for the fine job they did in planning this conference and making sure that everything went so smoothly. i want to thank you, the membership, at this conference. all of us a judge's look forward to getting to know you and form lasting friendships. this is our 76 conference. i hope that you all had a wonderful time. our 77 conference is tentatively scheduled to take place next year june 24-26. we look forward to seeing you there. that is in 2010. i wish each of you safe travels home, and we now stand adjourned. thank you. [applause] ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> you can watch the fourth circuit judicial conference again with remarks from chief justice john roberts later today at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. hearings on judge sonia sotomayor's nominations began june 16. now a look on talks about the supreme court nominee highlighting her qualifications. this is a little over 40 minutes. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i'll be joined o

but i guess they were talking last night about sam chase, drawn from the political dance, and he remained a politician and the court suffered because of that. >> an additional question? yes, sir? >> chief justice, what are your favorite books, and what do you like to read in your spare time? >> i do not like to read brief in my spare time. [laughter] i like detective novels, mystery novels, the sort of things you read on the beach. i like historical biography. saw all of the efforts to probe for weaknesses, and one person asked me the name of 15 or 16 chief justice -- i would have been devastated, because i am not sure i could have. but i did try to get through to it. a combination of detective novels, elmore leonard and things like that, and historical biographies. >> talk about people's favorite books. it is interesting to me because no one said to me, "i just love judicial biographies." with the exception of oliver wendell holmes, but he was wounded in the civil war before people got interested in him. i certainly want to thank you. >> we have time. someone is already headed to the mic

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. >> rob: baseball america rated the nationals draft with mike rizzo and sam casten number 1. there is that nasty breaking ball by garza. fastball, fastball, fastball, get ahead, big breaking ball. >> bob: here is willie harris who bounced out twice. what i'm trying to say, my message to our fans is, we know that this is difficult for you. we certainly do. >> rob: we'll all grow together. >> bob: that's a great way to put it. then when you win, you look back and say, you know what, we did it the right way. >> rob: that's right. >> bob: you can say, i came to the ballpark when we had 75 people there at the end of an extra inning game delayed by rain for two and a half hours. you know, crazy things happen on this journey. >> rob: well, you know, they keep comparing this ball club to the '62 mets. well, seven short years later, they win a world championship and they are the miracle mets. >> bob: the amazings. >> rob: the amazings. >> bob: if you want a little perspective on that, i wrote a blog on that last weekend which is on the masn website. the yankees -- or the mets back the

there's a time and place where uncle sam needs to step in to overcome the reluctance of all of us to deal with the aspects of electricity. it's necessary. we know we cannot wait decades. i'm excited about hearing the testimony. i happy we can get the job done in this bill. thank you. chair recognizes the ranking member, the gentleman from texas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. since we have an oversight hearing on upstairs it helps me to give my statement. i'm going to give a double statement. we'll talk about the hearing. then i want to comment on your personal comments. first on the hearing before us. it's scare iry when i agree with jay insley. but i do agree. his bill was directed towards clean energy or green energy. once you direct the energy, by wind solar or coal power, electricity is going to go on the same wires. the wires don't know what the source of the generation was. so with do need to update the transmission grid. we started the process in the energy policy act of 2005. i thought we had bipartisan support. it became law. the fourth circuit ruled recently that parts of thi

i also want to thank sam phillips and the staff of the executive's office for the fine job they did planning this conference and making sure everything ran so smoothly. finally, you, the membership at this conference call these judges look forward to being with you. the opportunity to get to know you and form lasting friendships. this is our 76 conference, and i hope you all had a wonderful time. our 77 conference is tentatively scheduled to take place. on june 24th if to the 26, we look forward to seeing you all there. in 2010. i wish each of you save travel home and we stand adjourned. [applause] >> the associated press reporting senate democrats are urging minnesota's governor to certified democrat al franken's the election to the senate following the state supreme court's ruling that the former saturday night live comedian defeated gop incumbent norm coleman. he will sign the certificate afforded to do so by the court. the court's ruling stopped short of ordering the governor to sign the documents saying only that out franken was entitled to it. those candidates planning news conferences

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. >> sam runs the washington station that has me on the air. >> nice to. thanks for being here. i'm actually from pennsylvania. it's different especially when i went to college but it's different. you guys have a great time. >> lynn sweet. >> thanks for being on the show. >> it's nice to see you. >> likewise i usually the one on their light. why, of sure. >> amy bolten. >> amy is to go to prison for all things chicago-related. chris matthews is supposed to be here but there's other programs -- [inaudible] >> that is what people remember. >> yeah, i do. be careful. all i am a lawyer. -- wired. thanks for coming. it's been interesting, right? >> it's been a great experience. >> how long have you been with marino? >> two years and i worked for a trade magazine. >> what was the trade magazine? >> it was treed manufacturing. >> what's that? >> fiberglass, airplanes and stuff. interesting. i got because i can be passionate about anything and it's true. >> good, good. thanks for the efforts on the book. i hope it's been fun. >> it's been a lot of fun. >> good. a lot of interesting mome

you remember when sam alito was going to his hearing and we got all crazy about whether he belonged to this or that. we tend to concentrate on trivialities. i think it has to do with the fact that this is both sides talking to their base. when you have senator kyl or senator sessions say sonia sotomayor is far out of the mainstream, and you are looking at a 5-4 decision, it has nothing to do with the facts on the ground. it has to do with the way we are conducting this conversation. we are talking to people who we want to send us checks. this is how we talk about abortion in this country. this is how we talk about gay marriage. this is how we talk about judges. it is happening in code. it is certainly true that it looks like there's a huge double standard. john roberts called out liberals for this a couple years ago in his affirmative action decision that had to do with schools and voluntarily integration programs. he said the only way to get past two races to get past race and liberals have to start favoring one race over another. that is an open question. there really depends on whet

[laughter] a used to go over to the sam's club, which is like walmart on acid.ou could go there and i 30- pound bags of tater tots. packages with 3002 chips -- 300 q-tips. i used to wonder who came here shopping for condoms, because the quantities are so massive. there are a lot of optimistic people in america. [laughter] the other thing about those places this everyone is having the same conversation, about how much money they are saving by buying in bulk. a couple will say they should think of of -- they should get 15,000 obstacles because they were thinking of having kids anyway. that was one culture. now we are in a different culture. washington is really the of political and profit center. i got one good piece of advice, which was interviewed three politicians every day. i try to do that justify know what is going on everyday. i can tell you they are all emotional freaks. they talked so much, they drive themselves insane. they are also guaranteed to invade your personal space. when you go up to a politician, he will read your ground ahead. i had dinner with

is one way we can hold down costs and empower individuals rather than just turn it all over to uncle sam. mr. president, let me just say in conclusion, we keep hearing that we must put health care reform on the fast track here in washington, d.c., although we do see the schedule slipping because of some of the sticker shock at the huge numbers coming out of the congressional budget office. i've told folks back home in texas, i said we know the train is leaving the station, but we do not yet know whether that train will safely arrive with all of its occupants healthy and alive or whether what we're witnessing is in essence a slow-motion train wreck here in washington, d.c. the more the american people learn about what's in these bills and how much they cost, they will want us to slow down so we can make better decisions and we can get this right. mr. president, i think we owe them that. i yield the floor. a quorum is not present. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. for tkor mr. president, i make a -- mr. d

the way this hits your tongue, you really get the full flavor out of sam adams lager. lager in this glass was like tasting a boston lager for the first time again.  >> bob: a lot of action in this 2-2 game on a night that started in bad weather conditions with lots of rain, delayed 37 minutes. ryan zimmerman went deep to lead off the second. bonifacio as usual

is create a system where insurance companies suddenly have a whole bunch of more customers on uncle sam's dime but failed to meet their responsibilities. [applause] we are not going to do that. [applause] let me give you an example of

and so, for me to come in, having written a number of books and sam interested in your collection, they like it a little less so at yellowstone or yosemite because it's been written about a lot. but if you go to spiderlake, every american should go to their in oregon this year it is spectacular. the most dazzling blue color lake in that whole region of southern oregon which teddy roosevelt did so much to protect. the back story had never been written about greater lake, so they're helping me get documents left and right. if you pick a site that has not been covered very much or written about very much, they're willing to help you because you care about the history. people don't think of history and national parks. they're coming for camping experience or hiking. they're less interested in the history. i would try to look at the history of them. >> what evidence does your publisher have that this kind of book would sell? $35 apiece, 1000 pages. >> you can get it online. with presidential studies and bitter roosevelt is beloved like washington or lincoln, so people want to read about a pr

create a system where insurance companies suddenly have a whole bunch of more customers on all those sams dime but failed to meet their responsibilities. [applause] we are not going to do that. [applause] let me give you an example of what i am talking about. we need to end the practice of denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions. [applause] the days of cherry picking hood to cover and hutu the night, those days are over. -- cherry picking who to cover and hutu dewho to deny, those de over. [applause] i watched my own mother as she fought cancer in her own days spending time warring -- worrying about whether her health insurance coverage would say that her condition was a pre-existing one. for every person who has suffered under this practice to pay premiums into not get care, we need to put health care in the beach for millions of americans. [applause] -- put health care in the reach of millions of americans. [applause] even if we exceaccept all of the reasons for providing health- care coverage to every american, there is no denying that expanding coverage will come at a

i also want to thank sam phillips, karen and the staff of the circuit executive's office for the work they did in planning this conference and making sure that everything ran so smoothly. and finally you, the membership at this conference. all of us judges love being with us, and it gives us the opportunity to know you and form lasting friendships. this is our 76th conference, and i hope you all had a wonderful time. our 77th conference is tentatively scheduled to take place at the greenbriar june 24-26, and we look forward to seeing you all there again in 2010. i wish each of you safe travels home, and we now stand adjourned. thank you. [applause] pplaus [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> up next, stan kansas ten. after that, a senate panel looks at regulation foss a banking derivative. >> this week on prime minister's questions, prime minister gordon brown discusseses the fate of british hostages in iraq. he also answers questions on government spending, the economy and u.k. jobs. following his speech,

mistakes, picking second in the 1984 draft, they made the selection of star-crossed kentucky center sam bowie, whose legs remain a fossil. thus the chicago bulls lucked into a guy named jordan. now, that should have covered the trail blazers in the "oops" department for the next two centuries. two years ago, picking first, they selected ohio state center greg oden. thus did the seattle supersonics, now the oklahoma city thunder, fall into kevin durant, an extremely scorer. is history repeating itself? oden missed all of the 2007-2008 season and was only able to play 61 games last year, degree which he averaged six points and five rebounds. we can't say he'll fail, but he doesn't z appear to be very fragile. and let's not forget the great tease that bill walton turned out for the city of portland. well, at least they got their only championship out of him before he left town. bowie was a nice guy, and oden is off the charts friendly and accessible. he's everything you want off the court. keeping him on the court will be the ongoing problem. >> my admiration for jim brown is both an athle

simply create a system where insurance companies suddenly have a whole bunch of more customers on uncle sam'sime, but still fail to meet their responsibilities. [applause] >> we're not going to do that. let me give you an example of what i'm talking about. we need to end the practice of denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions. [applause] >> the days of cherry picking him to cover and who to deny, those days are over. [applause] >> i know you see it in your practices, and how an incredibly painful and frustrating it is. you want to get somebody can you find out the insurance companies are wiggling out of paying. this is personal for me also. i told the story before. i will never forget watching my own mother as she fought cancer in her final days spending time worrying about whether her injured would claim her illness was a pre-existing coverage to get out of providing coverage. changing the current approach to pre-existing conditions is the least we can do for my mother and for every other mother, father, son and daughter who has suffered under this practice, who have been pa

we're already at $85 billion of taxpayer exposure. 400 has been authorized but uncle sam is 80% ownerf the gse and on the hook for $5.3 trillion, i believe. is there a scenario where you would say the conservator ship is not working. >> we look at the receivership last august and september as we consider had with to do with fanny and freddie. and it was our view that conservatorship was a better alternative for the mortgage markets and the economy and that's still my view. if we're going to stabilize the mortgage market receivership might have the wrong impact and it might unstabilize the market. so at this point, we're not contemplating the receivership and i don't really see the advantage of receivership versus conservatorship. >> is the taxpayer on the hook for the $5.3 trillion or not? >> the taxpayer is on the hook for the senior preferred facility that the treasury department negotiated and that's $200 billion to fanny and freddie and $200 billion to each of them. >> but the $5.3, the federal governor is owner. >> the fraederal oh foe you're shareholder you're not responsibility

. >> i would like to introduce sam husseini for the institute for public accuracy. andrew snyder, associate editor of kiplinger washington editors and chair of the n.p.c. book and author committee. cheryl arvertsen. jeffrey bartholette. marilyn g wax with national public radio. the other side of the podium, angela king chair of our speakers' committee. laurie rousseau, organizer of today's luncheon and the new managing director of stanton communications. congratulations. valerie jackson associate editor with plats. ira allen public affairs specialist with the fogarty international center and the national institutes of health. skip keltenheiser, independent author and writers of letters from washington. rick dunham, washington bureau chief, one of our former presidents here with hearst newspapers and glad to have rick here as well. finally, r.e.m. writer editor and publisher with american journalism and review. and now you can give your applause. thank you. >> it may come as a surprise to some of you here today as you've watched our speakers luncheons over the years

think your sam pointed everywhere and shortsighted ceos, sleeping or negligent regulators, overspending consumers and the sleazy lenders. fasb has been spent much of that criticism. and companies did generally follow standard accounting rules. these days fasb is a bill like the most popular girl at that dance and companies particularly banks want a modification of accounting rules that might make their balance sheets look a little bit more appetizing. our guest today is head of fasb and has been so since 2002 and is one of many experts time to figure out the best way to get out of the economic home to make sure it doesn't happen again. he is a certified public accountant and less at price waterhouse coopers prior two excepting his current position. president obama recently announced a broad set of new regulatory measures in that stabilizing the economy. we look for to hearing our guests take on this and other economic issues facing the country. please try me in welcoming mr. robert hurts to the national press club. [applause] >> thank you for that very generous introduction. it is a rea

it's a very simple quick there were brothers, and from my brother sam and i'm talking about, another store in tightly, but they were let away and. they were actually looked away and lumberjacks rather endearingly, actually. i want to revise that famous monty python song but sort of crossed over with fiddler in the woods actually. [laughter] >> they were lithuanian lumberjacks. there were four brothers, and three of them had the energy to go from london to liverpool and maybe an anti-crossing and settled of course in brooklyn. but my grandfather was too lazy and stayed in london. but what this meant, the reason, the answer to your question is we had an american family always when i was growing up. by all cocaine in his rather beautiful american air force uniform i remember when i was a kid. we were close to our new york family. we always felt very much like new york was home to me. but in serious, you know, i got tired. i was raising cain which i said you know, i was grateful for the kind of liberty i was given by my family to write. but then i went to teach at oxford and there was a